"Last year, the world watched as Barbara Streisand announced "the time has come", and for the first time a Best Director Oscar was presented to a woman. Only three women (Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, and Sophia Coppola) had ever been nominated for this honor before 2009. Kathryn Bigelow's win caused people all over the world to shout that the glass ceiling had been shattered."
Over at ScriptLab, Noelle Buffam tells us who her top ten women in film are and why.